This 1-day workshop is designed for researchers who want to learn more about the process of designing, developing and delivering an international collaborative research proposal, and securing European funding for such projects.
The workshop will be highly participatory - researchers attending the workshop will be involved in activities and discussions, and these will focus on their own research and current or future projects they are working on.

Specifically, this workshop will address:

> Designing and developing an international collaborative research project, including selecting suitable questions, methodology, case-studies, etc. as well as locating and contacting partners and collaborators
> Delivering such projects through effective planning, time-management and appropriate communication and people management
> Securing H2020 funding for research projects, focussing on what makes an applicant competitive, what makes a proposal fundable and how to shape your research idea into one the H2020 will fund.

programme

08.45 | Welcoming coffee

09.00 | Introduction to the Workshop

09.10 | What is a Proposal: Function and Form
This initial session will develop a broad framework for constructing `fundable' ideas and progressing them into a generalized proposal format.

09.45 | Key Elements of any Proposal
What are the elements that are necessary for all proposals? How might they be grouped and organised? (And how do they relate to good research design?)

11.00 | Break

11.15 | Effective Proposal Writing: Researching and Writing
An effective proposal is one that meets the funders' needs - so what are they and how can we address them? But we also need to ensure that the words we use actually persuade and communicate that we are meeting those needs, so we need some emphasis on writing methods...

12.30 | Lunch (free time)

13.30 | Future Funding Proposals
It's time to put some of our learning into practice! Together we will attempt to write elements of a funding call - and read them as `funders' - so as to consolidate and expand the learning from the morning.

15.30 | Break

15.45 | Future Funding Review, Learning Points and Action Planning
It is now time to digest what we've learnt and for individuals to set their own plans for taking this learning forward into their work-practice.

16.15 | Collaborators - Finding, Agreeing and Working with Them
It's not all about the paper... We need to consider the `people' side of things, including conceiving an ideal research team, and focusing on where we can find collaborators, what we need to agree with them, and how we can work with them most effectively.